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R. C. Tyler (search for this): chapter 8
report to Major-General Cheatham, the enemy having already penetrated the line on his left, and there the brigade was warmly engaged until ordered to retire across the Chickamauga. In the action in support of Cleburne, Maj. W. H. Joyner, of the Eighteenth, was wounded, Lieut. J. T. Pigg, of the Thirty-second, was killed, and 16 men wounded. Bate's brigade, Col. R. C. Tyler commanding, was fiercely assailed; the troops on the right gave way, and in attempting to rally the broken line Colonel Tyler was dangerously wounded, when the command devolved on Lieut.-Col. James J. Turner, of the Tenth and Thirtieth. Colonel Turner, in his history of the battle, says he fell back about 1,500 yards and halted and formed across the road, when the division commander, Brigadier-General Bate, directed him to follow on to the pontoon bridge at the Chickamauga, the sun being an hour high. Cobb's battery and a number of detached soldiers, numbering about 500, came up and fell into our line of battl
William J. Hardee (search for this): chapter 8
ssing the love of woman. His command of Polk's corps was temporary. Lieutenant-General Hardee was restored to the army of Tennessee, and commanded the corps at theate Walthall's splendid performance. In his official report he says: Lieutenant-General Hardee, leaving Major-General Cleburne in command on the extreme right, move and that portion of our force to the right remained intact. In fact, when General Hardee came up from the right, Walthall had already formed across the ridge and driven the enemy back. With enthusiasm Hardee said to Cheatham, You have saved the right of the army. The heavy firing heard by General Hardee was Walthall's resistanGeneral Hardee was Walthall's resistance to the advance of the enemy. Strahl's Tennessee brigade, Stewart's division, constituted a part of what General Stewart aptly called the attenuated line by whicrces under Hooker and Palmer reached the front of the Confederate rear guard of Hardee's corps under Cleburne, less than 20 miles away, at Ringgold, Ga. Cleburne's
W. S. Rosecrans (search for this): chapter 8
Chapter 8: The fatal Pause on Missionary Ridge Changes in command Cheatham's division the fight at Lookout Mountain disaster on Missionary Ridge gallantry of Tennessee commands battle at Ringgold the Knoxville campaign. The army of Tennessee was halted on Missionary Ridge, and remained inactive for two months, until the 25th of November, when it was driven from its position and forced back to Dalton, Ga. On the 16th of October, General Rosecrans was superseded in the command of the army of the Cumberland by Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas, and the military division of the Mississippi, consisting of the departments of the Cumberland, Ohio and Tennessee, was created, with Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant in command. General Bragg preferred charges against Lieutenant-General Polk for disobedience of orders at Chickamauga, and on the 29th of September, by a special order, suspended him from command. President Davis, after an examination into the causes and circumstances, ign
Humphreys (search for this): chapter 8
was participated in by Bushrod Johnson's brigade; the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Tennessee cavalry under Brig.--Gen. W. Y. C. Humes; Dibrell's cavalry brigade; Freeman's, White's, Rhett's and McClung's batteries, and the First Tennessee cavalry, Col. Onslow Bean. General Johnson, with his own and Gracie's brigade, reached the front of Knoxville on the 27th and 28th of November, 1863. On the 29th he moved to the attack on Fort Loudon in support of the assaulting column under Brigadier-General Humphreys, Gracie on the right. The command approached to within 250 yards of the enemy's fortifications on which the assault was made, and was soon under fire. At this time Gracie was withdrawn by the lieutenant-general commanding, and an order made for Johnson to halt. The attack was abandoned, and Johnson occupied, with his skirmishers, the advance rifle-pits, distant 250 yards from the enemy's fort. During the assault on Fort Loudon, Johnson's brigade lost Lieut. S. W. Ross, Forty-f
McConnell (search for this): chapter 8
and nearly across the open ground in front. The column returned with 8 stand of colors and 500 prisoners. The enemy, reinforced, made an attempt to follow, but was met and routed by the Fiftieth Tennessee. In this gallant action of the Fiftieth, its noble colonel, Cyrus A. Sugg, fell mortally wounded. He was greatly distinguished at Chickamauga; no officer of the army had a more promising record, and no Tennessee name deserves greater honor. General Cleburne, referring to him and to Col. McConnell of Cumming's brigade, said: I did not personally know them, but I saw and can bear witness to their gallant bearing and noble death. Gen. L. E. Polk's Arkansas and Tennessee brigade was not actively engaged, but rendered good service in holding an important position. The same can be said of Wright's Tennessee brigade, which was acting under the orders of the commanding general of the army. Cheatham's division took position on Missionary Ridge to the left of the road which led down t
P. R. Cleburne (search for this): chapter 8
me right of the line as reinforcements to General Cleburne, in whose front the enemy was supposed tothe Chickamauga. In the action in support of Cleburne, Maj. W. H. Joyner, of the Eighteenth, was wovision was on the extreme right in support of Cleburne, Maney being posted in rear of Smith's line. nd Thirty-sixth Georgia. Twice, says General Cleburne, he was checked and had to reform, and Warfieo Tennessee name deserves greater honor. General Cleburne, referring to him and to Col. McConnell oed, an army corps would have poured down upon Cleburne's left and overwhelmed him. In this combat Geys: Lieutenant-General Hardee, leaving Major-General Cleburne in command on the extreme right, moved less than 20 miles away, at Ringgold, Ga. Cleburne's command consisted of 4,157 men; his retirem which the enemy made no attempt to advance. Cleburne lost 20 killed, 190 wounded, and Hooker admit killed and 377 wounded. Among the wounded of Cleburne's command were Col. W. D. Robison, Second Ten[4 more...]
O'Neill (search for this): chapter 8
ded that his entire command had been broken and was in retreat, and ordered me to fall back. The darkness was Turner's protection, and the order from Breckinridge saved him from capture. The regiments on his right, he says, came out to the road within a few yards of the Federal line. (Col. Jas. J. Turner, sketch of Thirtieth Tennessee.) Turner's command consisted of the Thirty-seventh Georgia, Lieut.-Col. Joseph T. Smith; Fourth Georgia sharpshooters, Major Caswell; Tenth Tennessee, Major O'Neill; Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh Tennessee, Lieut.--Col. R. Dudley Frayser; Twentieth Tennessee, Maj. W. M. Shy; First Tennessee battalion, Maj. Stephen H. Colms; his own gallant regiment, the Thirtieth Tennessee, and Cobb's battalion of artillery, composed of Cobb's, Slocumb's and Mebane's batteries. Turner fought Sheridan's division and held it in check for two hours. It was a gallant action, and the names of the participants will live forever. Turner won promotion, if he did not receiv
Official Records (search for this): chapter 8
h 25, 1864, placed this endorsement upon it: Attention is called to that part of the report giving the number of prisoners and small-arms captured, which is greater than the number really captured by the whole army. This General Hooker, who was so defiant of historical accuracy, is the same Gen. Joseph Hooker who was the author of a slanderous communication addressed to the Hon. S. P. Chase, dated December 28, 1863, and published in 1890, on page 339, Series 1, Vol. XXXI, Part 2, of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, in which the following statement was made: Before the battle of Lookout, I had opened communication with Cheatham's division, holding the summit of the mountain, and had good reason to believe that I would have succeeded in bringing in all the enlisted men with some of the officers but for their untimely removal. They were relieved by Stevenson's division. The only conditions I required were that they should give themselves to me with arms in thei
Marcus J. Wright (search for this): chapter 8
ion general. The men murmured, the officers resented in silence the action of the commanding general, and for this the Tennesseeans were scattered. Maney's brigade was assigned to Walker's division, Strahl's to Stewart's, Vaughn's to Hindman's; Wright's brigade was detached and sent to Charleston, east Tennessee; and the Mississippi brigade, commanded by the gallant Walthall, and the Alabama brigade of John C. Moore, were assigned to Cheatham's division. Cheatham was proud of his new command,y know them, but I saw and can bear witness to their gallant bearing and noble death. Gen. L. E. Polk's Arkansas and Tennessee brigade was not actively engaged, but rendered good service in holding an important position. The same can be said of Wright's Tennessee brigade, which was acting under the orders of the commanding general of the army. Cheatham's division took position on Missionary Ridge to the left of the road which led down to the right of our fortifications. It was moved to the
W. M. Shy (search for this): chapter 8
as Turner's protection, and the order from Breckinridge saved him from capture. The regiments on his right, he says, came out to the road within a few yards of the Federal line. (Col. Jas. J. Turner, sketch of Thirtieth Tennessee.) Turner's command consisted of the Thirty-seventh Georgia, Lieut.-Col. Joseph T. Smith; Fourth Georgia sharpshooters, Major Caswell; Tenth Tennessee, Major O'Neill; Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh Tennessee, Lieut.--Col. R. Dudley Frayser; Twentieth Tennessee, Maj. W. M. Shy; First Tennessee battalion, Maj. Stephen H. Colms; his own gallant regiment, the Thirtieth Tennessee, and Cobb's battalion of artillery, composed of Cobb's, Slocumb's and Mebane's batteries. Turner fought Sheridan's division and held it in check for two hours. It was a gallant action, and the names of the participants will live forever. Turner won promotion, if he did not receive it. The rear alone was open to him, the Federal troops in vastly superior numbers were in front and on both
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